Moxa Americas Inc. News

It is the third year in a row Moxa has been recognised with the award Moxa, a leader in industrial-grade networking solutions, is proud to announce that it is one of 45 companies recognised by Northrop Grumman Corporation in the company's annual Supplier Recognition Program. Each company, selected from more than 5,000 Information Systems sector suppliers, was evaluated on five categories: schedule, management, technical, financial and quality. It is the third year in a row Mox...

Moxa continues to invest in and build on its strength in serial communications with the release of three new PCI Express x1 serial cards that take advantage of new patent-pending intelligent RS-485 technology. This release sends a powerful message about Moxa's commitment to customers that require serial communications products, especially when many manufacturers have already reduced or abandoned support completely. RS-485 remains a top choice for engineers who need to create small, private devic...

FDOT's approval validates the performance of Moxa's EDS switches to handle video streams over long distances Moxa, a leading manufacturing of networking products for intelligent transportation and traffic management, announced recently that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has added its EDS managed field Ethernet switches to the state's Approved Product List (APL), following extensive site performance reviews and environmental testing. By adding the EDS Series...

Moxa's expertise with mission-critical applications and harsh environments will be an asset to the Consortium Moxa, Inc., a leading manufacturer of industrial networking, computing, and automation solutions, announced their membership in the Industrial Internet Consortium™ (IIC). The IIC is a non-profit partnership of industry, government and academia formed to accelerate the global use of interconnected devices, intelligent analytics and people. Moxa is one of the first...

The DNV-rated MPC-2240 is a marine-grade 24" touchscreen LCD panel computer for ship navigation Moxa announced that it will be showcasing its new 24" marine-grade panel computer at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Booth 12218 in Houston, Texas, from May 5 to 8. The DNV-rated MPC-2240 is a marine-grade 24" touchscreen LCD panel computer engineered specifically for ship navigation and will be demoed live at the show. In addition to the MPC-2240, Moxa will also be...

Moxa became a sponsor member of the SunSpec Alliance in 2010 Moxa, an industry leader in data-loggers and networking hardware for the renewable energy market, announced recently that it was recognised with the Open Standards Champion award from the SunSpec Alliance, a trade consortium of distributed energy industry participants working together to pursue information standards to enable "plug & play" system interoperability. It was the second year in a row that Moxa receive...

The event is to be held at the Moxa Americas premises on April 22, 2014 The SunSpec Alliance, a global trade association of solar PV industry participants pursuing information standards for the distributed energy industry, in collaboration with Moxa Americas. Over 60 organisations are members of the SunSpec Alliance, including global leaders from Asia, Europe, and North America. SunSpec standards address most major sub-systems and operational aspects of PV power plants on the...

Moxa, a leader in intelligent industrial networking solutions, is leveraging its extensive technological resources to introduce one of the world's first PoE+ Ethernet switches engineered to perform in harsh outdoor and industrial manufacturing environments, featuring 3KV LAN surge protection and a wide temperature range (-40°C to +75°C) that ensures the highest reliability of PoE systems while delivering network speeds of up to 1000 Mbps to eliminate bottlenecks. Moxa's new EDS-P510A-8P...

The flexibility of Moxa's all-in-one router allows Media Resources to grant access of the IP camera to clients Media Resources is an industry leader in large-format digital displays such as billboards and video scoreboards. Recently, they have reported a significant enhancement to the reliability of their control systems that corresponds to a large reduction in maintenance costs, thanks to the deployment of Moxa communications and networking equipment. The majority of Media R...

Industrial operators using commercial-grade wireless devices for media-rich, mission-critical wireless applications may be getting satisfactory wireless network service, but frequent maintenance and system downtime can add up to a high total cost of ownership. Moxa, a leader in embedded computing solutions, is addressing this issue with its new AWK-5232 Industrial a/b/g/n Wireless AP/Bridge/Client that delivers high-speed wireless connectivity with up to 300 Mbps data rate, along with superior...

Driving innovation and extending its leadership in industrial networking technology, Moxa has introduced two new PROFIBUS-to-fibre converters that transparently bridge PROFIBUS to optical fiber, providing total isolation, protection against EMI/RFI interference, and freedom from equipment grounding problems. Equally important, the two new converters help extend connections up to 2.5 miles on multi-mode fibre or up to 25 miles on single-mode fibre at data rates up to 12 Mbps -- well beyond the s...

For its new remote system, Terra Ferma plans to standardise on Moxa networking equipment Moxa and Terra Ferma announced a comprehensive partnership encompassing the use of Moxa hardened communications equipment for a remote SCADA monitoring and IP surveillance system which Terra Ferma will market to the oil and gas industry. "Moxa is one of the few companies to offer hardened networking equipment to all areas of the oil and gas industry, so it can partner with customers like...

Moxa manufactures an array of industrial-grade IP network solutions Low-voltage distribution leader Alarmax, recognised as having one of the industry's broadest selections of security solutions, and Moxa recently announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement in which Alarmax will distribute Moxa's hardened IP network video surveillance products and high-performance edge-to-core industrial Ethernet solutions. Moxa manufactures an array of industrial-grade IP...

The new UC-8100 Series computer and software platform will make it much easier for systems providers to offer a complete monitoring service for any and all of their remote field devices, according to representatives for Moxa at the Solar Power International show in Chicago last week. The UC-8100 Series will act as a compact, highly flexible, vendor-agnostic data logger that connects to inverters, string combiners, smart meters, and other devices made by any manufacturer, then transmits that data...

Moxa will supply 200 NPort serial-to-Ethernet servers to connect the various testing devices to PC for data recording One of the largest maintenance and logistics centres for USA government aircraft has selected Moxa as a supplier of serial bus communication components for their next generation of black box testing stations. Moxa will be supplying 200 NPort serial-to-Ethernet servers to connect the various testing devices to a PC for data recording, analysis, and reporting. T...

IRIS certification for passenger information and communication systems is the most stringent international standards Moxa has joined an elite group of companies worldwide to achieve International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS) certification for passenger information and communication systems. The certification was awarded to Moxa's Design and Engineering headquarters in Taiwan following a recent audit by the AFNOR Group. The IRIS certification for passenger information and...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, has unveiled its new EDS-210A series 10-port industrial unmanaged switches capable of delivering Gigabit speed and multiple fiber connections. The switches are designed to meet growing demands of high-bandwidth data convergence and long-haul data transport for small-scale and widely-distributed edge applications, such as those that can be found in factory floor automation. The EDS-210A comes in two configurations th...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, is meeting the growing need for faster transmission speeds and wider coverage with its new AWK-6232 wireless Access Point/Bridge/Client that allows outdoor networks to scale to higher bandwidth demand while providing maximum availability. "Anyone who has suffered download delays or interruptions on an outdoor wireless network should welcome the AWK-6232, our top-of-the-line, high-bandwidth outdoor wireless solution,...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, computing, and automation solutions, recently unveiled the ioLogik™ R1200 series, a new line of dual-independent RS-485 serial interface remote I/O devices that empower integrators to easily and cost-effectively deploy dual-bus redundant or extended length remote I/O daisy-chain topologies in wide temperature environments (-40° C to 85° C on wide-temp models). Five different ioLogik™ R1200 models are available with different analogue...

Moxa’s VPort 16-M12 EN 50155-compliant IP cameras were selected as the rear-facing camera in the project Moxa will provide VPort 16-M12 EN 50155-compliant compact IP cameras for use in on-board IP CCTV applications in Montreal, Canada. The selection criteria for this application included exacting requirements such as high image quality in low illumination environments, EN 50155 and EN 60721-3-1 compliance that includes corrosion protection, and accurate bit rate control...

Moxa has played a leading role in solar data logging for more than a decade Moxa announced recently it will be showcasing its solar dataloggers with a live cloud-based panel monitoring demonstration at the Solar Power International Conference & Exhibition, taking place October 21-24, 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Solar PV and inverter manufacturers, system integrators, distributors or anyone who would like to learn more about the latest solar applications are invited...

Moxa has expanded its MGate Series of industrial Ethernet gateways with the new MGate 5105-MB-EIP and MGate 5102-PBM-PN to provide simplified, versatile and transparent connectivity solutions for upgrading or retrofitting existing networks. The MGate 5105-MB-EIP is purpose-engineered for the management of Modbus field devices connected to an EtherNet/IP master device, such as PLCs or SCADA networks, while the MGate 5102-PBM-PN gateway provides a communication portal between PROFIBUS devices and...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, announced recently it received Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification of its VPort 36-1MP-IVA-T surveillance camera for Class 1, Div. 2 hazardous locations. Receiving UL certification means the camera can be safely deployed in potentially hazardous locations where flammable gases or vapors either are or may be present in the atmosphere in sufficient concentration to produce an ignitable mixture. Certification...

The convergence of IT and industrial automation networks has created new opportunities to improve productivity, but has also heightened security threats posed by malicious hackers, worms, and viruses. The standard solution has been to use an industrial secure router that protects the control network in conjunction with a variety of switches behind it to complete the communication network. In addition to requiring additional configuration and power for multiple devices, this solution sometimes in...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, has unveiled two new series of EtherNet/IP and PROFINET-enabled managed Ethernet switches engineered to provide advanced efficiency for industrial networks. Pre-configured for plug and play simplicity, the new EDS-405A/408A-EIP and EDS-405A/408A-PN switches deliver an easy, cost-effective way of integrating legacy networks, eliminating the need for additional configurations an...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, has set its sights on the oil & gas industry with the introduction of its "roughneck-ready" EXPC-1319 hazardous location panel computer. "The harsh conditions found in oil and gas fields are possibly the worst imaginable for a computer," explained Daniel Liu, Business Development Manager for Embedded Computers. "Our EXPC-1319 is fully enclosed to withstand the heat, moisture, vibration and dangerous gases that a...

Moxa's Global Sales and Marketing headquarters in Brea is named as Orange County Register's Top O.C. Workplaces Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, is proud to announce that its headquarters for Global Design and Engineering operations received Aon Hewitt's Best Employers Taiwan 2013 award recognising it for superior employee engagement and leadership. The award comes on the heels of Moxa's Global Sales and Marketing headquarters in...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, recently announced the new ISD-1000 Series of data line surge protectors engineered to guard data and hardware from harmful transient energies resulting from the "switching" of nearby equipment.  "We've been hearing from the market that surges continue to disrupt plant operations," said Paul Wacker, Product Marketing Manager for Moxa. "Responding to market demand, we've introduced our latest data line surge pro...

Moxa's PowerTrans PT-7728-PTP switches meets the demands of power substation automation systems Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, recently announced that it has joined Symmetricom, Inc.'s SyncWorld® Ecosystem Program following the successful interoperability testing and validation between Moxa's line of PowerTrans PT-7728-PTP switches and Symmetricom's SyncServer® SGC-1500 Smart Grid Clock. "By demonstrating IEEE 1588 solu...

Moxa, a provider of hardened networking, communication and computing solutions, recently announced that all models in its 802.11n series of wireless access points will gain significant enhancements in speed and functionality through a free firmware upgrade.   The new firmware provides Moxa's AWK-3131 and AWK-4131 models with improved throughput up to 150 Mbps, automatic backup configuration through Moxa's ABC-01 unit, auto-negotiation for 4-pin Ethernet cables, and a number of other perfor...